by Guest Post | Apr 6, 2025 | Comment, Court of Protection, FCReportingWatch
This is a guest post by Victoria Butler Cole KC. Victoria is a barrister at 39 Essex and you can find her on Bluesky @torbc.bsky.social. The BBC recently published an article about the experiences of a young woman who had spent time in a range of placements including...
by reporting watch team | Mar 29, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highlight other transparency news. MEDIA COVERAGE OF FAMILY LAW, TRANSPARENCY etc The BBC reported on The...
by reporting watch team | Mar 27, 2025 | Consultations
Some news on the much awaited reforms relating to the instruction of unregulated experts in the Family Court: the Family Procedure Rule Committee has launched a consultation on proposed rule changes that are said to tighten the standards for the instruction of expert...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 24, 2025 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
UPDATE – 2nd July 2025 – see bottom of this post Journalists and legal bloggers (reporters) are normally allowed to see certain types of documents under the Reporting Provisions that came in this year, and earlier during the Reporting Pilot. Sometimes...
by Julie Doughty | Mar 23, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging
We wrote last year about a hearing I attended in Cardiff Family Court about the necessity for an intermediary to assist a father in a fact-finding hearing. We were therefore interested to see recently listed an appeal against a decision made by a judge in a different...
by reporting watch team | Mar 14, 2025 | Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch
Dale Vince, described on Wikipedia as ‘a British Green energy industrialist, former New Age traveller’ attracts a good deal of publicity whether it’s his political donations, owning a ‘green’ football team, or taking libel actions against publishers who wrongly...
by reporting watch team | Mar 2, 2025 | Consultations, FCReportingWatch
In April last year, the Lady Chief Justice set up a new Transparency and Open Justice Board, chaired by Mr Justice Nicklin. It aims to lead and coordinate the promotion of transparency and open justice across the courts and tribunals of England & Wales and support...
by Paul M | Feb 28, 2025 | Transparency News
Not all judgments are created equal Some, by more senior judges or courts (essentially High Court judges or above), may be regarded as primary or binding ‘authority’ for the propositions of law which they contain. They lay down the law, which lesser courts and judges...
by Guest Post | Feb 21, 2025 | Comment
This is a guest post by Sir James Munby, and it follows on from earlier posts about the proposed Assisted Dying reforms here, here and here. In Assisted Dying: What Role for the Judge? More Thoughts, published on the Transparency Project website on 6 December 2024,...
by Julie Doughty | Feb 17, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Last week, we wrote on a family court judgment about children that had been published on TNA and BAILII naming an individual party, which we said almost never happened. That’s because of the strict privacy and anonymity rules intended to protect children who are...
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